Guild Wars 2

I was thinking about all the ‘Festival Hats’ we earned during holidays in Guild Wars, as well. I really wish the Devs would bring that back.

Though, maybe this playerbase would not embrace the ‘must be there to acquire’ feature of said ‘Festival Hats’.

If we are lucky, we might get Festival feeding-cats. It’s kind of a shame they already used the Halloween-related and Wintersday-related kittens. We might get new Halloween-related weapon skins. Or some of the old ones might return.

Maybe a Halloween-inspired Glider (as mentioned above), or some new Halloween mini-pets. A fun new way to earn a Backpack? A new not-so-grindy Aura?

I’d be happy with just a fun quest to earn the Festival Hats each year (for Halloween and Wintersday). I loved my Pumpkin Head(s). (Preferred the second to the first.)

• The pumpkin masks in GW1 were awesome. Love to see them in the game.
• Pumpkin kite? awesome idea

How about a pumpkin version of the mystic carpet? or a ‘ghost’ glider?

So I’ve been thinking of a few Halloween items I’d love to see come around this year, and figured why not ask about it on the forums!

Pumpkin Helmet skin! It would function as an armor skin and can be mixed and matched like any other armor skin, probably a few gems worth in the store and definitely would make for a cute affordable costume, with out having to be a full outfit!

Pumpkin flying Kite! This would serve no other purpose than just a mini toy for us gw2 players to run around with. It would work just as the other kites do.

Other Holiday Items!

Winter Mittens glove skin! An armor skin that would take on the look of winter mittens for the upcoming winter season~ Look stylish with your earmuffs, and scarf and now mittens! This would allow for a mix and matched winter look! Only a few gems in the store as well hopefully!

These are just some Ideas I thought would be cute to see in game for the up coming holiday seasons. If anyone else has anymore ideas please write them down under and spread the joy!!

@OP:
There’s a whole big new map for you to explore and you’re angry at Anet, posting sarcastic remarks on the official forums, because you don’t get one extra node to strike a couple times every day?

Home instance petrified node would be neat, certainly. But is it really worth getting outraged over? o_O

Donari.5237:

How many dedicated channels do we get? If I’m RPing a stealthy roguish meeting at an ice cream cart in the Pavilion I don’t want to have to weave my lines through those of someone doing a murder investigation in Rurikton or a Charr tourist grumbling about the foolishness of the menagerie.

Gosh this really makes me miss everquests /join (came out along with PoP or maybe late Luclin). Basicly type /join Channelname to join the channel named. If it doesn’t exist yet it creates it. Everyone who wants to join can do so. That would solve the muddled mess of messages.

penelopehannibal.8947:

Byou the same notion, role players shouldn’t have to stop role playing just because it’s not 5o your taste either. Neither should they be put in a separate box.

My agreement the RP channel suggestion wasn’t to segregate by putting RPers in a separate box but actually to integrate by giving RPers a dedicated place for what they’re doing which could:
1) let new players to the game who are RPers see that RPing is supported, welcomed and active and encourage them to partake
2) not confuse non-RPing new players who have all chat options active by default who could think that emotes are just for roleplayers (the suggestions that people turn off emotes are essentially saying that their use is only for RPers)
3) facilitate with reporting trolls more easily seeing as you can’t report emotes as you can any other chat option (a lot of people don’t have the time and/or can’t be bothered to run around DR looking for the culprits given the range of emotes and size of the city, plus they could be moving around anyway)
4) help CS recognise when people are trolling RPers by the trolling taking place directly in the RP channel
5) have the more limited range that Donari was on about like Say chat already does so’s not to interfere with other RPers
6) actually encourage current/future non-RPers to get into RPing by seeing that it’s another facet of the game’s community other than the LFG section

I know plenty of people in my guild who like to use emotes when we’re standing around waiting to start content. While sure, people can re-organise their chat tabs/options, I feel an actual channel for RPing would help tackle some of the issues with RPers being accepted as part of the player base.

Or ANet could offer everyone with terrace passes an exchange for another pass, but that would simply be a temporary band-aid.

Donari.5237:

If I’m RPing a stealthy roguish meeting at an ice cream cart in the Pavilion I don’t want to have to weave my lines through those of someone doing a murder investigation in Rurikton or a Charr tourist grumbling about the foolishness of the menagerie.

Isn’t that what happens now in emotes which have a larger range than Say? It’s read that way to me at times which actually turns me off the RPing more than the walls of text. Even if you do want to follow what RPers are doing while standing at the terrace, you have random people emoting on top of people trying to RP as well as people’s stories all being mixed up. At least from my own personal observations.

stale.9785:

Travelling between the TP pickup and crafting stations in DR, because it’s the least irritating setup in-game. I’m not sure where the RP folks are, but they’re still at it. I shouldn’t have to shut off both /emote and /say to avoid it.

That said, I don’t particularly care either way, given my own mindset, but there ought to be a limit on it for the sake of those who really don’t want to see it.

EDIT: Call it what you will, but they’re the same names that turn up all the time. People getting their freak on with their charr, debating the morality of Charr eating the other races, holding court while critiquing the fashion choices of those who pass by.

They’re there basically every evening between 8pm and 12am ET.

Byou the same notion, role players shouldn’t have to stop role playing just because it’s not 5o your taste either. Neither should they be put in a separate box.

Apart from the “getting their freak on” publicly they are not actually doing anything wrong.

penelopehannibal.8947:

If what you are saying is true, then these ‘freaks’ are NOT roleplayers. They are trolls. That sort of thing would be breaking the lore of the game, and roleplayers do not break the lore.

I really do suspect you are just coming onto these forums with that sort of accusation against roleplayers just to cause trouble. You sound like someone at a hotel complaining that a movie on one of the channels was a dirty movie, and all 110 minutes of it was absolutely disgusting…

I’ve seen some pretty vulgar things in DR RP, yes I would agree some are intentionally trolling, however I don’t think every single one is.

A private opt in channel would be ideal. The main point the OP was making in this post was about the amount of messages being displayed.

The other idea of limiting the /me or emote range has a downside: Random RP would be even harder to find/join. Yes there are alot of closed RP stories/groups out there that ignore anyone trying to randomly join, but some RPers do include others and a limited range would make it even harder to find and join.

TexZero.7910:

I believe you took this the wrong way. Let me clarify.
If i see vulgarity i have several tools at my disposal. I can leave, block, turn off emotes, move to a separate chat tab or even report it.
It’s not worthy of a dear diary style rant on the forums. If you know a particular area is a haven for immature RP and you want to avoid it…..Catch my drift here ?

True you do have all those options; it’s still not acceptable to break the ToU while you are playing. Yes, I agree it’s not worth a rant, but I don’t really think most here are ranting. Making a post with a complaint or suggestion about something you don’t like and explaining it isn’t ranting.

TexZero.7910:

It’s not your horse in the race, so why are you there watching ?

This is always my stance when it comes to personal choices. You have several, use them.

While it is true people have some personal choices to where they go, that’s no excuse for inappropriate behavior or messages. Just because you can “choose” to do something doesn’t mean you should do it, or that it’s socially acceptable.

Would you consider it ok to sit around a restaurant and shout bigoted comments, profanity, or act out some ERP right then and there? At very minimum you would likely be asked to leave, for the later there are possibly other consequences.

Is the OP not aware that other cities besides DR exist that they can use ?

While the content of RP chat can be a problem, it supports the primary issue of emotes needing to be reworked.

A) Emotes need to not travel nearly as far.
B) The name of the person emoting needs to be interactive for reporting issues.

In the realm of RP, it would simply make it faster to click on a name and choose “report” if there was a content issue.
In trolling issues, it would make it worlds easier to be able to click in the name llililillllilliilllillilliii and report it, than trying to deal with whatever sequence of letters it actually is.

Op, thank you for a good laugh, really it’s been a long time i laughed so hard i started crying and gasping for air.

Edit: i saw today little asura saying to another asura that she regrets to make him her chocolate lover because it makes her sticky. Whatever that means.

I’m part of the RP community in NA and i have to say the Public ERP isn’t a thing. Yes, some people have the mistake of ACCIDENTALLY posting it out in a /me or /s but dear gods is that embarrassing for them and I’m sure they don’t mean to.(Very very very rare) Those who DO ERP in public are probably trolls, imo. Because no sensible role player would really submit themselves to that kind of embarrassment. I’ve also never really seen anyone do this kind of thing on purpose, and I spend all day in DR.

Divinity’s Reach is one of the very few places where RP still thrives and i wouldn’t like to see it die down any time soon. Megaservers kind of killed it…a lot.

As the previous comment mentioned, please don’t smear roleplayers for these types of things. I’m sure if they had they choice they’d want an rp server for themselves with no ‘haters’ out there as well, but alas we don’t have that choice anymore.

ERP can be reported. If it’s especially… graphic, then create a support ticket and include screenshots of the dialogue.

Other than that, I have emotes turned off in chat and so I never see any RP in DR, good, bad, vulgar, erotic, or other. I was never bothered by the content, just that I couldn’t read any /guild or /map chat due to the volumes of text spewing from a small fraction of the RPers.

Regardless, I’d love to see ANet consider the possibility of an /rp channel, especially because it would be opt-in rather than the current situation in which people need to block emotes and/or /say if they choose to avoid RP for whatever reasons (good or bad).

Unseenstrike.2971:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Unseenstrike.2971:

I beg you, make an RP channel, just for rp, that rp players can use, and spam to their hearts content,

“Spam”?

Using /say chat is not spam. Roleplayers have just as much right to use the /say channel for friendly, in-character chat as those players who like to use it for out of character chat. If it bothers you that much, just use a different channel and make new chat tabs that don’t have /say or /emotes ticked.

RP is NOT spam.

I looked at google for a definition of spam, I found this, quote, “irrelevant or unsolicited messages” – and that is exactly what most of that rp is to me, so I do define a lot of it as spam (particularly when it is repeated over and over again, for example, when someone is grinding on the lap of another).

You say “friendly, in-character chat”, I’m not talking about that, I’m talking about the spamming, the swearing, the abuse and the erp.

Everyone has a right to use the /me command and that is fine, what is not fine is spamming, and abuse.

Except it’s not unsolicited because roleplayers are talking amongst each other. Otherwise by your definition unsolicited talk is anyone who is not talking to you specifically. Let’s have only you and your friends who talk to you have their own chat channel instead, that’d save a lot of developer’s time.

Oh wait, that already exists, doesn’kitten It’s called ‘party’ and ‘guild’ chat. There you go.

Again, please do not smear roleplayers. They contribute a lot to this great game. Some of them a lot more than most non-roleplayers. They buy the game just like any other player. They spend money on gems for outfits like any other player. And most of them spend a lot more time in the game than most non-roleplayers.

I agree with you that the ERP should be private though. But if you’re going to want to put a stop to public ERP by roleplayers, then equally a stop should be put to non-roleplayers who shout and swear ‘lel top kek’ and make sick jokes in /say and /map chat. Which can already be dealt with via the function of in-game reporting.

I’m from Piken Square – virtually no roleplayer I have ever seen has partaken in public ERP in the four years I’ve RP’d there. I can’t say if the same is true for Tarnished Coast/NA roleplayers though. But the EU RPers are usually a friendly bunch that know to take indecent ERP to private channels (usually Salma )

Randulf.7614:

An RP channel is open to abuse by non rpers though surely?

Most definitely, but only by those who are seeking specifically to attack RP’ers. Luckily, that’s a sad minority. But most people who don’t RP don’t REALLY care about RP people and won’t even notice they exist unless they happen across some in the wild.
So yes, even with a dedicated RP channel, you’d still get trolls, but far less than before. Because now you’re not dealing with the casual troll who is just attacking whatever he/she comes across in chat.

Unseenstrike.2971:

I beg you, make an RP channel, just for rp, that rp players can use, and spam to their hearts content,

“Spam”?

Using /say chat is not spam. Roleplayers have just as much right to use the /say channel for friendly, in-character chat as those players who like to use it for out of character chat. If it bothers you that much, just use a different channel and make new chat tabs that don’t have /say or /emotes ticked.

RP is NOT spam.

RP is a…niche hobby I don’t quite get either, but I feel like this suggestion would be great no matter what side of the fence you’re on. On the one hand, we non rp’ers really don’t care to see some of the more intimate things these people like to do, but on the other hand, I’m sure the rp crowd would love to have their own little private space.
Like, I’d love to be all “get a room, gaiz” when things get saucy, but Anet just doesn’t have rooms for them. So they’re stuck out in the public where they’re open to all kinds of trolling and ridicule, (which isn’t fair to them. They don’t intentionally go out of their way to disrupt MY game) and everyone else is stuck watching them do…whatever.
So I hope someone important sees your suggestion and does something with it!

Oh, please, I want it. I love to read RP while I’m passing through any place.

More constructive: Please Anet, add the previously proposed RP checkbox to facilitate people who likes rp to end together in the megaserver instances. And to facilitate people who don’t like rp to NOT end with rpers.

I beg you, make an RP channel, just for rp, that rp players can use, and spam to their hearts content, about their bunched panties that need adjusting, the sand that got in there that’s making them wiggle, about how they feel hot about it, and all the other inane gunf they spam about. I’m at my wits end of seeing this sort of thing. In Divinity’s Reach today my eyeballs were assaulted not only by rp spam, but by swear words.

I cannot easily block all the people that rp, as they use the /me command, I cannot click on them to block them. Many have special characters in their name, and some disguise their names, and there can be dozens of people that rp at once. There can be a literal wall of gray text on your screen.

I do not want to block emotes and I shouldn’t have to, I want to know when guildies wave at me etc, so I can wave back and not be rude.

Some rp people justify themselves, saying Anet made a LFG for Role Play, therefore it’s allowed. I don’t have any problem at all with rp – what I have a problem with is that it is unwanted text on my screen, and contains things that I do not want to read, especially the erp.

Please, make an island that rpers can go to, or a channel of chat just for them.

WHY they HAVE to do it in public I do not know – but I do NOT want it!

I’ve got no issue with roleplayers but I do agree that the emote walls of text in DR when I’m using my terrace pass do my head in. I like emotes (especially in WvW when they can be used to show that you’re non-hostile when on an opposing team) and it bugs me to have to turn them on and off because of the spam in one map. I understand people RPing in cities because that’s often part of the RP, but I agree a separate chat channel would be the best option and also make non-RPers less hostile towards those who RP.

Yeah I know I request these like every few weeks but I am still waiting: Aetherblade armor sets, PLEASE. Every weight!!! Please? What should I do, cry or kneel or both?

ginryu.3026:

Miss Lana Too.5794:

ginryu.3026:

Pin Character to Beginning of Character Menu

On this note – as someone who has 45 characters on her main account – I would love an option to manually set the way my characters are sorted – and keep them that way. Not just a PvP/PvE type deal like in gw1, but more a drag-and-drop or move up-and-down option. Maybe even options like “sort by profession” and “sort by race” would be fantastic. And while we’re at it, maybe even a search bar.

While I’m sure that would improve the QoL for a tiny minority of the playerbase, and while that would indeed be a cool set of features, I hope ArenaNet will take action, first, to implement the simple suggestion I’ve made—being able to pin a single character to the beginning of the Character Selection menu on the Character Selection screen.

As an old-school MMORPG player, I have a “main” character—as many other people do, I’m sure—and a series of alts. In my case, I have one character for each Guild Wars 2 profession. My engineer, however, is my main character.

I’d like to be able to play an my alts for a bit, but then quickly switch back to my engineer by selecting him from the beginning of the Character Selection menu on the Character Selection screen. This is a very simple, straightforward feature to add, and would require allocation of a minimal amount of time and resources to implement.

While a more robust character sorting and selection menu would be great, let’s strongly encourage the development team to implement this baby step feature, and then gauge the community’s reaction to it. If there is a powerful, positive response, maybe the powers that be would see that additional Character Selection changes are warranted.

I don’t see why a sorting feature wouldn’t help out the entire playerbase. The drag-and-drop feature I suggested would lock those characters into their places until you decide to rearrange them (similar to what you ask, but in more detail). Baby steps are always good, but I don’t see why we can’t suggest more detailed QoL upgrades just because the step 1 hasn’t happened yet.

Miss Lana Too.5794:

ginryu.3026:

Pin Character to Beginning of Character Menu

On this note – as someone who has 45 characters on her main account – I would love an option to manually set the way my characters are sorted – and keep them that way. Not just a PvP/PvE type deal like in gw1, but more a drag-and-drop or move up-and-down option. Maybe even options like “sort by profession” and “sort by race” would be fantastic. And while we’re at it, maybe even a search bar.

While I’m sure that would improve the QoL for a tiny minority of the playerbase, and while that would indeed be a cool set of features, I hope ArenaNet will take action, first, to implement the simple suggestion I’ve made—being able to pin a single character to the beginning of the Character Selection menu on the Character Selection screen.

As an old-school MMORPG player, I have a “main” character—as many other people do, I’m sure—and a series of alts. In my case, I have one character for each Guild Wars 2 profession. My engineer, however, is my main character.

I’d like to be able to play an my alts for a bit, but then quickly switch back to my engineer by selecting him from the beginning of the Character Selection menu on the Character Selection screen. This is a very simple, straightforward feature to add, and would require allocation of a minimal amount of time and resources to implement.

While a more robust character sorting and selection menu would be great, let’s strongly encourage the development team to implement this baby step feature, and then gauge the community’s reaction to it. If there is a powerful, positive response, maybe the powers that be would see that additional Character Selection changes are warranted.